The variables you will be trying to find are ones that are "crowd behaviour" variables not handicapping variables such as Favs under $3.00 etc. don't think like a computer handicapper, this is where people go wrong they try and do analysis by what works with my handicapping, instead you need to be finding races statistically alike. You need to categorize by underlying statistically similarities You then have knowledge in how to apply effective handicapping based on these categorizes.